Author: Kevin Murnane / Source: Forbes
Google is always modifying its apps and devices with upgrades and new features. The pace of change is so relentless that trying to keep track can be overwhelming. In case you missed them, here are some of the best new features Google introduced this week.
Google’s Clock app teams up with Spotify
You can now wake up to a selection of music from Spotify if you use Google’s Clock app as your morning alarm. Your choices are limited to one of 26 Spotify curated playlists or one of the last 10 things you played yourself. Pray a prankster doesn’t get ahold of your phone and ruin your day with a death metal playlist instead of Spotify’s “Have a Great Day!” that normally wakes you up.
Home adds room-specific controls
Home now lets you control devices in individual rooms which can be very useful for actions like voice controlling lights. Previously, if you said “turn on/off the lights”, the Assistant carried out the action on all the smart lights in the house. Now if you assign lights (or anything else) to rooms and say “turn on the living room lights”, only the lights in the living room come on.
The Assistant responds differently to “Turn on/off the lights” (without a room mentioned) depending on where you are when you issue the command. If you’re in a room that has lights assigned to it, the assistant will only turn on the lights in that room. If you’re in a room with no assigned lights, all the lights in the house will come on.
You can assign…
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